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Title Shipping, trade and commerce : essays in memory of Ralph Davis / edited by P.L. Cottrell and D.H. Aldcroft
Published [Leicester] : Leicester University Press, 1981

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Description viii, 200 pages : 1 portrait ; 24 cm
Contents The economics of uncertainty : the structural revolution in the spice trade, 1480-1640 / Peter Musgrave -- Lisbon, its English merchant community and the Mediterranean in the eighteenth century / H.E.S. Fisher -- The "New economic history" and the business records of the East India Company / K.N. Chaudhuri -- The sources of England's wealth / F. Crouzet -- North European timber exports to Great Britain, 1760-1810 / Sven-Erik Åström -- Customs evasion, colonial preference, and the British tariff, 1829-42 / David M. Williams -- Scottish shipping, 1775-1805 / Gordon Jackson -- The steamship on the Mersey, 1815-80 / P.L. Cottrell -- William Gray & Company / Robert Craig
Notes Includes index
Bibliography "Ralph Davis, a bibliography of his work": pages 7-8
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Davis, Ralph, 1915-
Shipping -- History.
Shipping -- Great Britain -- History.
Tariff -- Great Britain -- History.
Shipping -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Commerce -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115235
Genre/Form Festschriften.
Author Aldcroft, Derek Howard.
Cottrell, P. L., 1944-
Davis, Ralph, 1915-
LC no. 81174599
ISBN 0718511956
9780718511951